.! 4 v VOL. 2. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY' THEODORE SCBEOCET. TERMS. Two dollars per annum ui advance Two dollars and a quarter, half ycarl and if not paid before the end of the year, Two dollars and a half. Those who receive their papers bv a carrier or stage drivers employed by the proprie tor, will'be charged 37 1-2 cts. per year, extra. No papers discontinued until all arrearages arc paid, except at the option of the Editor. IO" Advertisements not exceeding one square (sixteen lines), will be inserlcd three wceksfor one dollar . twenty-five cents for cverv subsequent insertion-, larger ones in proportion. A liberaldlsconut will be made to yearly advertisers. IE? All letters addressed to the Editor must be post paid. JOB PRINTING. Having a general assortment of large elegant plain and orna mental Type, we are prepared to execute every des cription of la Cards, Circulars, Bill Heads, Notes, Blank Beeeipts, JUSTICES, LEGAL AND OTHER B&AjVKS, PAMPHLETS. &c. Printed with neatness and despatch, on reasonable terms. IRON WORKS, Ii AUTOS, &c. FOR SALE. The subscriber offers for sale all the Works and Lands belonging to the late firm of Henry, Jordan & Co., adjoining the borough of Stroudsburg, the seat of Justice of Monroe county, Pa. situated about three miles from the Delaware river, and twenty six from Easton, on the located route of the Susquehanna and Delaware rail road, and adjacent to numerous stores, mills, houses of worship, several Acad emies, schools, libraries, &c. &c. The works are erected on a tract of about in a high state of cultivation, and consist of a two fired forge, Tilthammer and Forge, Blowing apparatus, large shears, Ore stampers, Grind ing and Polishjng works with three water wheels, and power and convenience for at least three more heavy mill wheels. The water power is never less than 2,S00 square inches, under a three feet head : 'the whole head and fall is eleven feet. Also one Blacksmith shop, with 2 fires, several large Coal barns, Iron house, Carpenter shop, Scale house, Store and Office, and other out houses one new brick MANSION MOUSE, Barn, &c, and ten other welling" Mouses, all in good repair. Also about 1750 Acres of Wood Italic! jn the vicinity, with several good tenements, tarm land, and water power thereon, in lots to suit purchasers. Also several hundred steel and' iron pole axes, and a few tons of tilted iron, of various sizes, suitable for ironing wagons, &c. All of the above property will be sold cheap, and oq accommodating terms. Apply to JAMES BELL, Jr. Agent. Experiment Mills, Monroe Co. Pa. v February 12, 18-11. P. S. If the above mentioned mansion house is not sold before the first of April next, it will he for Rent. aim AT STROUBSB UllG . npHE spring term of the above named insti JL tution commenced on Monday, tho 4th day of May ; and is conducted by Miss Mary M. TItomas, late of Troy Female Seminary, an experienced and well qualified teacher. I he branches taught at this Seminary, are Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, Geography, Grammar, Composition,' History, Natural Philoso Rhetoric, Drawing, Chemistry, . Botany, Logic, Geometry, Algebra, French, Latin, Spanish & Italian j languages, Music, The Seminary being endowed by the -State, in struction is afforded at the reduced rate' of two deliars per quarter, inclusive of all branches. Haying rented the spacious stone buiiding, for merly occupied as the male Academy, the Trus tees are now prepared, to receive any number oi young ladies that may apply, from all parts of the .county. Board, in respectable families, can be obtained on reasonable terms. The Trustees, with the fullest confidence, com mend the .Stroudsburg Feinale Seminary to the patronage of the public. . . JOHN HUSTON,. jPres't. (Attest) Wr P. Vail, Sec'y. , Stroudsburg,, May 151840. WANTED, At the Monroe Tannery, 3 or 4 wood chop- ,pars, lo-WJioinJiueiai wages wm dc given oy , R, T. DOW-NHsTG.;&Go. Pocono tsp-ivMoriroe 3o. ( on roe Qo. ) vmi,r .:h '. - , March Hj, u'a s pjB The whole art STRO UDSBURG. MONROE COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7, 1841.. muim I'll1 Jin JPOETBLY. From the North American. The Exploring Expedition BY THE AUTHOR OF "SHIP AND SHORE." The Captain of a Nantucket whale ship, re turning from the South Sea, reports that when in latitude 70, he fell in with an immense iceberg, on the glittering face of which he discovered deep ly chiseled in large letters, the following lines which he carefully transcribed on the spot. 'Neath this iceberg's rough attrition, Coffined low in many a ship, Lies the South-Pole expedition,-r ., Homeward bound from its cold trip. It had proved itself no dreamer: Reached its ice-encircled goal ; Planted there its gorgeous streamer,- -Star and stripe upon the Pole! " This proud triumph nerved and cherished Through the long Antartic night, While each hope of home had perished, When this iceberg hove in sight. Ninety days the gale had lasted When beneath the towering pile, . It had moored its ships dismasted ; . Deeming this some ice-bound isle!. When it plunged, and through the ocean Sunk each unresisting deck, Ere the sleeper felt the motion, Or the (vatch escaped the wreck! - O'er its dark, unfathomed slumbers, ' Wakes no human wail orJmel, But the mermaid pours her numbers,' ' Through her wild elegiac shell. Little heeds it now this story, " " Graven here in flinty frost ; Little recks of Polar glory, ( x Trophies won, or laurels lost! - . ! f "Never more shall it "weigh anchor," "Loosen sail," or "heave the lead;" Nevermore "man jib" or "spanker," Till the last trump wakes the dead. The report that an old lady, in her anxiety to hear a courting scene, run her head through the key hole, is now contradicted. A lady of modern refinement advertises in struction in " vocalization." We are at a loss to know whether she teaches singing or scold ing ! Pa, what is a spirit-stirring speech? 'Ob servations made while preparing one's toddy's, m3r child.' An English editor, Avith much gravity, says the way they procure black writing ink in S. Carolina, is by whipping the negroes' until they cry and then catching the tears.. ' We dislike to see little boys smoking cigars and chewing tobacco; it looks as though they were in a hurrv to make fools of themselves. Mr. , your chickens don't look as well this year as common." "Oh those you al lude to are roosters they have crowed so much this year in honor of the election of Old Tip, that they hav'nt had time to get fat." III. Paper, Weatiier Wisdom. The following are a few of the common or popular proverbial 'says relative to the weath er: If at sun rising or setting the clouds appear of a Iundred color, extending nearly to the ze nith, it is a sure sijm of storm and gales of wind. 'If the moon shows like a silver shield, be not afraid to reap your field: But if she rises haloed round, soori we'll tread on deluged' ground.' 'A rainbow at night is the shepherd's delight This adage may also be a good sign, provided the wind be easterly, as it shews that the rain clouds are passing away. ' Evening red and the next morning grey, aro certain signs of a beautiful day. 'If the cock goes crowing to bed, he'll cer tainly rise with a watery liead.' ' When the peacock loudly bawls, soon we'll have both ram and squalls. Learning by Steam. " Don't you think," said an innocent good woman to Trap yesterday, "that bye and bye people will be able to ham by steam?" " Bye and bye!" said Trap with a look of sur prise, "why, madam, most of the students at our collegiate institutions do so now." "Lurd! do they i?idccd?" queried old grand moiher. " " Ob! yes " said Trap.. "Our voune men W to 'cqllegp driye tandem play billiards iret. ururnv, aim men grauuaie. . ii mat isn I learning by steam, I I'm no judge." iv. 6, Crescent City, .1L 1. ' .1 ' .1- T V. -I . . i 1 I. 6y Government consists in the art of .being wfaMretn.'tLiaimumfluvrj.i, t 2&oinanc of I&cal Xiifo. We have, aforetimej recorded many roman tic and affecting incidents which have become history through the medium of the inquisitions held by the Coroner of this city; and perhaps a majority of those investigations, if they could be sifted to the bottom, would develope connect ed circumstances out of the dull and ordinary course-of every day life. But cases of loafers found floating in our docks, have generally more of the disgusting than of the romantic in their compositions. The case which forms the bur-, than of the following veritable narrative of facts, hojvever, is a striking exception to that general rule. I he story became known to the Sunday News, and is told in the following manner in theilast number of that journal. N. Y. Swi. . 'Married, on Tuesday, by the Rev. Wm. Ash, T.Mowitt, to Charlotte Conroy,boihof this city." Ttlie above marriage was consummated in this city on last Tuesday week, and thereby hangs a tale which may be worth tne attention of the lovers of the marvellous. Mr. Mowitt is a respectablo boss shoemaker, who keeps sev eral men employed, and among the rest was one named John Peking, who had ingratiated him-, self so much in his favor by his faithfulness, in dustry, and sobriety, that he took him into part nership about three years since, and had no cause, to regret his kindness. From that period Mn Mowitt and Mr. Pelsing were constant friends and companions, and boardedm the same house uitil about twelve months since, when one dayjthey were subpognae'd for a coroner's inquest, vhich was about to be held on the body of a manUhat had. been taken out of the Maiden Lane dock. The deceased had all the appear ance of hiving been a regular dock loafer, and it was the opinion of all present that he had fal len into tie slip while in a state of intoxication; but the verdict, which was giver, in a few min utes, waslmerely "found drowned." The jiry beincr dismissed, Mr. M. turned- round to hoik for his friend and fellow juror, who had Jeen at his side till that moment, but he was gone, and he thought he saw him run ning at almost full speed up Maiden Lane. This strulk him as being very curious, and it also remii ded him of another curious fact, (at least curi us as taken in connection with his sudden flight,) namely, that when Mr. Pelsing had first glahced at the face of the corspg, he started and fumed deadly pale. Mr. M. then proceeded lo his boarding house, and, thence to his store, look for his partner, but he was not to be foundlt neither; nor did he return that night, nor the nes, nor the next, and two months pass ed away without bringing any intelligence of him; durina which lime Mr. Mo wilt had fully made up hii mind that there was some myste rious conno-.tion between his friend and the man that w s found drowned, and that, in con sequence ttereqf Mr. Pelsing had in all proba bility madekwav with himself. Well, so natters rested until a certain day in. last June, wien a iaay caneu at ivir. iUowiirs store, and atrcd for Mr. Poising. She was told the particulars of his story. "And hasn't he been here silce?" she inquired. "Not since, replied Mr. ffowitt. "I know he has," said the lady. He his not, I assure you, at least to my knowledge, hnswered Mr. Mowitt. "But am positivc,'paid the lady. "What proof have you of it?" inciiired the shoemaker. "The best in the world,returned the stranger, "for I am here, and I atd Mr. Pelsing are one and the same person.i And strange as it may appear such was thelctual fact. Well, the qiestion then was, whether Mr. Pelsing was ;tgentleman or a lady, and it turn ed out that she was a lady, and more than that, her name wash John Pelsing at all, but Char lotte Co'nroy, aid furthermore, that she was the widow of the mi tliat had been found drowned. She then state that her husband, who was shoemaker in Iiiladelphia, and to whom she had been mairfld for about two years, had treat ed her very bady the consequence of which was that she pfeked up his trade by stealth, and when she thouat she was sufficiently perfect, equipped hefsellin men's clothes, and ran off to this city, to be ie more safely out of the reach of her lord and rrister. Here, as we have seen, she got into thejmployment and remained in the confidence q Mr. Mowitt until the time of the coroner's innest, immediately after which she proceeded toPhiladelphia, where she learn ed that her husbad (who had become a wan dering loafer,) htj, on the hint of a friend, set out for New Yoriabout a woek before, to look for her; but wherj instead of an injured wife, he found a waten ravc. The upshot of lis romantic affair was, that Mr. Mowitt requef ?d Mrs. C. to make his house her home; that afi r a while ho found that he liked her yet bpt r as Mrs. C. than as Mr, Pelsing; that by v tue thereof he proposed a renewal of their tms of partnership, which was accepted; andjhat on last Tuesday "week Mr. Mowitt and ihjlate Mr. John Pelsing be came husband and l ife. This is the first iistnnce, we believe, on re cord, wherein a win performed the office of a coroner's juryman; o the body of her own hus-r band, or wherein p. ; ning man was married, to his own master. !T a lady,, by the way, is very good looking,.and fctii on fjie.safe side of thirty. honest; Jefferson. - .... ? v.r-A hj.ii vj-t-ej?.-mt-'jcnrA. imam. jj-.m uu,MTiii'i.mmuejMj "I pity the printer," said my uncle Toby.-'l ' "lie's, a poor creature, rejoined I nm. " How so?" said my uncle. . . . " Because, in the firGt place, (continued the. Corporal, looking full upon my uncle,) because U l- 1 T. nu must cuuuavuur 10 uiuuse uvery uuuv. xu paragraph pons upon him: he hastily throws it to the compositor it is inserted and he'isl ruined to all intents and purposes." "To much the case, Trim," said my uncle)' with a deep sigh, "too much thecase." " And please . your honor," continued Trim elevating his voice, and striking into an implor-' ing attitude, "-an please your honor, this is now the whole." " Go on, Trim," said my uncle feelingly. " The printer sometimes pursued the Cor poral hits upon apiece that pleases him might-. ily, and he thinks it cannot but go down with' his subscribers; but alas, sir, who can calcu- late the human mind? He inserts it, .and it is all over with him. They forgive others buts they cannot forgive a printer. He has a hosu to print for, and every one sets up for a critic: The pretty Miss exclaims "why dont he give. us more poetry, marriages and bon mots I away with these stale pieces." The politician claps his specs on his nose, arid runs it over in search of some violent invective; he fiuds.l none; takes his specs off, folds them, sticks them in his pocket, declaring the paper is good for nothing but to burn. So it goes. Everyone thinks it ought to be printed expressly for him self, as he is a subscriber, and yet after all this complaining, would you believe it, sir, said the honest Corporal, clasping his hands beseech ingly would you believe it, sir, there are some subscribers who do not hesitate to cheat the printer out of his pay! Our army swore terri bly in Flanders, but they never did anything so bad as. that!" "Ne.ver!" said uncle Toby emphatically. SpcalL to tSsat IToimjr ISJait. We mean that young man clad in broad cloth and rufiles, and tasselled cap--with "soap locks" dangling about his ears, and ivory head ed cane dangling about his legs. A few mo ments since he was to be seen at the bar swal lowing his glass of brandy and water. Pres ently you will see him with a cigar m his mouth in a chaise or gaily trimmed cutter, "driving a smart trotting horse through the street. Hallo, there! young man ! you are on the high road to rum! soon you will drive down the steep precipice into everlasting disgracej Rein back; put up your team; cast away your cigar; lay off your broadcloth; abstain from the cup. procure some mechanical or agricultural tools; cultivate habits of industry and morality; aim to be an honest and useful man. By so doing you may yet retrieve a faling reputation, and make.yo.urself a useful and respectable member in society. An Extraordinary Clock. A correspon dent of the jNewark Daily Advertiser thus de serines a new, ana certainly a very curious clock: The clock apart from the ornamental work, is simply this: An arrow, the stem of which is a solid glass rod; the barb or head of which is of brass and also solid: the feather end of the Arrow is of the same metal, but is made, hoi low, arid contains the whole moving power of the clock, and is wound up once a week. This arrow is fasiened by a pin in the centre of its stem into a glass dial plate on which the fig ures are painted, the arrow-head pointing to the hour with pencct precision and regularity. An inspection of the clock presents lo the curious observer this question: how can any movement contained in the extreme end of the arrow and obviously having no connection with the centre on which it turns operate to cause the arrow to revolve? A remarkable fact which shows the impossibility of deception, is that the arrow may bo removed from the dial piate and laid down on the taoie, or even car-, riod in tho pocket, and when replaced will im mediately return to the correc'. hour. The inventor of this wonder is T. R. Lefory, a Jeweller in.Newark. We are a little incred ulous. Some of the papers are chuckling -(because two editors have lately been appointed to office: Hal! of the bussex Register,' to a county clerk ship, and Horner of the-Princeton Whig to bo Alderman of Princeton; as if editors were nev er promoted before! llavn'l wc been olected town clerk twice, with a salary of eleven dollars and several cents (one year wo didifi'gef paidT though) per;unmim?ietfejr CUy Advertiser. .. i w 1 "-! " A.pnjf direct. A pedlorVwishins To recom mend' his razors to thelgaping crowd ' thus-- ad dressed them; "Gentlemen, the razors I hold' in my hand were made in a cavn by the light of a diamond, in the province of Andelusia, in Spain, r. They .out as quick as thought, and arc" as brighC.as the morning star. A: word-or two more amhl am certain you will buy them. Lay "them under your pillow at night, and you- will md yourself, clean in tho morning. ., I -.--j j it ' .-j niu j. m the negligence of a moment, perhaps a, smalElfour pages of the newspaper are Europe, Asia. u ianyai jtrt jai aw jjlt r-,w,KBaiiJiiiujuB'jt A newspaporoflice resembles the great world. jiThe large capital letters are aristocrats th IvpmaiHatters are the men, and the itaYnv ar th&Avomeu. Every form is a nation,, with tUft big bufs at the head; and in every form, there are various pieces, so are there different c,la.- ses, societies, and sects in the world. Thr Africa and America. The first pare is Asin- as that quarter of the world was first peopVet-- anu we nnu it generally filled with fielttiou tales of which the oriental natives werfthlufe fond. The second, or editorial page, is Eurqpr the opinionated spokesman of the world. Tl third pager mostly covered with adveriiseintt is America, with all its train of okWh wm megs, thrift, and hastily-swallowed dinner The fourth page is, of course, Africa, and :Jl that quarter of the globe, is seldom expired. and in all these lour pages or quartern of tfc world, the works of the devil are plentfftttfv conspicuous. Grubs in Cattle. -Most farmer know1 Ufa: a large portion of cattle-have grubs or vonHwjn 'that part of the llesh nearest the. back bane. It is .said that these grubs originate from a which lays its egg during the month of Jt-. arid August; and it is remarked that the best ftft cattle have the largest grubs. An old farnte in Connecticut, (so says our informant,)' Itos been in the habit of sprinkling ashes upon t,h backs of his cattle in the month of Septqmbt. after the season of action for the fly, ahd tlti has effectually destroyed both the nit and lb grub. Some have supposed thatth&grub was-natw-ral 'to the growth of Galtle. It comes from a nit of the fly; and is laid successfully' on that part sof the body which cannot be reached by the tongue of the creature. Farmers Cabinet. An old woman that sold ale, being at churit, fell asleep during the sermon, and mUuckiiy. let fall her old fashioned clasp bible, which ma king a great noise, she exclaimed, -hail" "So, you jade, there's another jug brwk:,y Comfortable. Going to Washington sjfftr an office, remaining there a week or two. fie ing at night on a sofa, or on the floor, wrapped up in a horse blanket, spending a eoal hundred or two; and then coming home with a htRgu $a in your ear. Boston Trans. . Independence of Mfestf. There are some men who no in leatHmr strings all their days. They always, follow t the path of others, without being able to give any reasons for their opinions. There is a proper mental indopence which all should main tain self respect and the stability of our char acter require it. The man who pins his opin ions entirely on another's sleeve, can have no respect for his own judgment, and is likely to be a changeling. When we consider carefully what appears to our minds, and exercise upon it our own reason', taking into respectful con sideration what others say upon it, and then come to a conclusion of our own, we act as in telligent beings should act, and only then. This proper independence of mind is far re moved from presumptuous self confidence than which there is nothing more severely to be condemned. Presumption is the associate of ignorance; and it is hateful in the extreme to hear some half 'taught stripling delivering his opinions with all the authority of an oracle. This is not what we mean by mental independ ence, and it,is to be hoped none will mistake what has been said. We refer to a modest yet firm and independent exercise of judgment upon subjects which the mind understand.-. pn short, we intend only the opposite of th: slavish habit which makes one man the mere shadow of another. Cause of Sound in Thunder. From Webster's Principles of Sound. Thunder is one of the consequences result mg from lightning, and lightning appears to ht occasioned by the comoustton of some o tKA inflammatory particles of the air; or, accordky to more recent opinions, of a condensation,. aerial matter conducing to electricity, by whfcl . in either case a vacuum is created. The t! rounding atoms which remain uninfluenced f this change, being forced together bynhe whw weight of the atmosphere, greatly constrict n other; hut ihcir elastic nature causes theiM , is. mediately to expand, and by this enlarjrf mi their sonorous properly is acquired. A f'i fugal fOrcH being thus established, it kc L . 1 dire tiHis alike: hot as tho circle nxKuM a prupuiiive jMjwcr ueromes graauniiy cni.) ;cd, till at last its pressure is no longer i r i . . i i ... -sound created. The rumbling noise tf i? ;".. -is produce'd by that portion'of the sondrui;. ble which strikes upon the earth, whonee ' comes condensed; and, being intercept! J upward course by dense masses of vapor, i. ?again reflected, and this alternate mothm revorboratiqn continue, until the mterrtn ;yf ceases or the original force is exhausted. Wi. ,s occasioned also by reverberation" front . : icloud to another, -r ' ' '' : ' w '
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